From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Anthony Drake" Subject: Re: rtc-ds3232 driver Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:27:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <62_2012_112735_GON@news.gmane.org> References: <61_2012_11913_GON@news.gmane.org> <20120301191200.GB2538@pengutronix.de> <61_2012_13540_GON@news.gmane.org> <20120301213414.501c5189@endymion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 21:34:14 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote in message > > Odds are that the underlying I2C slave device was not instantiated. > Please read: > Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices > Thank you very much! It works! after using method 4 with the name ("ds3232") from the i2c_device_id array, the kernel autoloads the module, creates /dev/rtc1. I've modified my userspace app to use the driver instead of raw i2c read/write, all working well.